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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Man, an evolutionary being, has emerged as the Neanderthal man from the
Ape, and presently, he is on the Way towards becoming the Supramental Being
through a Higher Evolution.

The earth is a field of Evolution —
Evolution of the Spirit that has become Matter and is involved in Matter. All
living beings on earth including the humans have emerged out of this Evolution.
But Man is not the final result of Evolution. He is in an initial and
rudimentary stage of the Manifestation of Consciousness _an imperfect and incomplete stage.

All of us want
to have happiness, joy, creativity and prosperity in life, for as long a period
as possible. We think that we should have all knowledge and wisdom and want
enough force, strength and power, ever with hope and dream of success and
victory. Ever, we hope of Light, Joy, Consciousness and Power.

But that has
not been our reality in life. Our existence as human beings is quite miserable,
with enough of sorrows and frustration, falls and failure, and ignorance and
inconscience. We are all in bondage of darkness, defeat, division, disease and
death!

However, should
we stop there? Should we not go ahead with our invincible hope, our golden and
happy dreams, our joyous expectations?

We should be
more progressive, more adventurous and warrior-like, more struggling, more
hopeful and endeavouring. We should inflame the Fire of our Aspiration
to dispel all darkness around us.

OOOOO

As Sri
Aurobindo said, the time has already come when evolution has to progress ahead
beyond man. As we know, Man is not the perfect being, not the complete being.
But he has in him the Aspiration, the HOPE and the DREAM for
becoming perfect andcomplete, for
conquering darkness, division and death. The aim of Evolution is to
manifest the Divine, the Source of this Manifestation, the
Supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.The Superman
shall emerge and manifest out of Man. Man should prepare and transform himself
for the Advent of the Superman. He has to grow and become the Superman. That is
the only purpose of Man's existence on earth - the coming of the Superman,
the Manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness - and the purpose has now to
be fulfilled. Man shall do that by surpassing himself. If Man fails to
collaborate with this new task of evolution, the evolutionary forces will
surpass him, go beyond him, push him aside, and find out a new and different
means to manifest the New Man, the Superman.

Has not The
Mother warned us in a message quoted earlier that we , the human beings, should
choosebetween Truth or
the abyss?

The Divine
Consciousness has descended and become ready to answer the Call and the
Aspiration of the human being, to lift him up to Light, Force, Joy and Love,
but Man fails, in spite of the Call given by him. The Divine gives us Light,
shows us the Way, but we cover the Light with the Shadow of Ignorance and
Darkness and create hurdles on the Way by creating walls and barriers of
Ignorance and Egoism. Often, we adhere to Darkness and Ignorance and ignore
Light and Truth and Wisdom. We are not yet prepared for the Next Evolution.

As The Mother
has declared, the Supramental Consciousness has descended on earth on the 29th day of February 1956.
It is actively present here
and now on earth.

I am quoting the oft-quoted message of the
Mother from Mother’s Agenda Vol.1:

First
Supramental Manifestation

(During the common
meditation on Wednesday

The 29th
February 1956)

This evening the Divine
Presence, concrete and material, was present amongst you. I had the form of a
living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive
golden door, which separated the world from the Divine.

As I looked at the door,
I knew and willed in a single movement of consciousness, that ‘the time has
come’, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow on
the door and the door was shattered to pieces.

And then the supramental
Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted
flow.

The Time now
has indeed come for the Human Being
to evolve and become the Supramental
Being. The Hour of God that came
on earth along with Sri Aurobindo
still continues and will continue till the Work
is done and the Supramental Beings emerge on earth.

Now, what is
the most needed in us is Aspiration, a fixed and unfailing Aspiration.

There is no end
to our march. Sri Aurobindo said:

There is
no end to the world’s stupendous march,
There is no rest for the embodied soul.
It must live on, describe all Time’s huge curve.
An Influx presses from the closed Beyond
Forbidding to him rest and earthly ease,
Till he has found himself he cannot pause.
A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
Ignorant, he forms the All-conscient in his depths,
Human, looks up to superhuman peaks:
A borrower of Supernature’s gold;
He paves his road to Immortality.

Barindranath Chaki

Interested mainly in the Adventure of Consciousness, I believe in human progress and evolution and in the inner capacity of Man to outgrow and master all his imperfections and darkness, to grow into a creative and constructive divine being, along with the society, conquering all inner and outer darkness, crossing all barriers and divisions.
I am a retired Officer of the Orissa Administrative Service from Orissa, India. Since adolescence, I was inspired by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mira Alfassa) and sought to understand and follow Their Teaching, and make others understand and follow Them. In 1956, I read The Life Divine, and gradually, read almost all that is written by Them and about Them. I have visited the Ashram and Auroville some times. I organized some Sri Aurobindo centres in Orissa, and often met Prapatti and Ramkrishna Das. I and my wife and children had a special Darshan of The Mother on my birthday on 3rd March 1972.
Mira Aditi Centre has published my Bengali translations of some books including Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness by Satprem, India's Rebirth and India the Mother, collections from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.